Thread-guide and thread-guide support for spinning-machines.



No. 686,0!5. Patented Nov, 5, 190i. E. WHITTUM, Decd.

A. A. WHITTUM, Administratrix. THREAD GUIDE AND THREAD GUIDE SUPPORT FOR SPINNING MACHINES.

(Anp lication filed Mar. 10, 1900.

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No. 686,015. Patented Nov. 5, I90l.

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A. A. WHITTUM, Administratrix. v THREAD GUIDE AND THREAD GUIDE SUPPORT FOR SPINNING MACHINES.

(Application filed ml. 10, 1900 2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

(No Model.)

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EDWARD \VHITTUM, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND; ANNIE A. WHITTUM,

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THREAD-GUIDE AND THREAD-GUIDE SUPPORT FOR SPINNING-MACHINES.

QPECIFICATION formingpart Of Letters Patent No. 686,015, dated N ovember 5, 1901. Application filed March 10, 1900. Serial No. 8,133; (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD WHITTUM, of Providence, in the county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Thread- Guides and Thread-Guide Supports for Spinning-Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide certain improvements in threadguides for spinning-machines and theirsupports and to substitute for the ordinary wooden threadboard, which is liable to Warp and is relatively expensive, a metal thread-board, which is free from the said objections and is more durable. The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a top plan view of a portion of the rollerbeam of a spinning-machine and a series of thread-guides and their supports embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a front view showing one of the thread-guides and its support. Fig. 3 represents a section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents an end View of the construction shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a section on line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 represents a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5. Fig. 7 represents a section on line 7 'Zof Fig. 5. Fig. 8 represents a perspective view of one of the stop-sleeves. Fig. 9 represents a top plan viewshowing an embodiment of my invention differing in certain respects hereinafter specified from that shown in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive. Fig. 10 represents a top plan View of a portion of the mechanism shown in Fig. 9. Fig. 11 represents a section on line 11 11 of Fig. 9. Fig. 12 represents a section on line 12 12 of Fig. 9. Fig. 13 represents a section on line 13 13 of Fig. 9.

In the drawings, a representsthe rollerbeam of a spinning-machine. 12 represents a rod or shaft which is journaled in bearings o, affixed t0 the beam, each bearing being shown as composed of a bracket-shaped lower member 2, Fig. 5, attached by a bolt 3 to the beam at, and an upper member 4?, attached by a screw 5 to the member 2. The shaft 1) may be of any desired length and supports a series of the thread-guide holders hereinafter described, a suitable number of the bearings 0 being provided to properly support the shaft and its attachments and permit it to be partially rotated to swing the thread-guides to and from their operative position.

61 d represent the thread-guide holders, each of which comprises a flat metal plate or body having at its rear end a socket formed to embrace the shaft b, said socket comprising the curved rear portion 6, Fig. 3, of the holder (1 and a bottom plate 7, attached by a screw 8 to the holder at and'having a curved portion 9, which fits the under portion of the shaft, the two curved portions 6 and 9 form ing a substantially tubular socket which closely fits the shaft and is adapted to turn ADMINISTRATRIX OF SAID .EDWARD thereon to a limited extent, as presently described, to permit either-holder and its threadguide to be displaced from its operative po-' sition without displacing the others.

The supporttt is provided with suitable means for engaging and holding the threadguide, which is a wire arm bent to form the usual open eye or pigtail lO'and a loop 12, havin g parallel sides. Theloop bears againstthe under side of the support (Z, which has two downwardlyprojecting ears 13 13 bearing against the sides of' the loop. A screw 14 is inserted in a hole formed for its reception in the support at and passes through the loop. A nut 15 is engaged with the screw and has its upper side formed to fit the sides of the loop 12, as shown in Fig. 6. The ears 13, screw 1-1, and nut 15 cooperate in firmly se. curing the thread-guide 10 to the support d. Each support (1 is connected with the shaft b'in' such manner that it is capable of independently swinging to a limited extent on the shaft, so that any support, with its threadguide, may be raised independently of the others. To this end the socket of each support is formed with a slot f, the edges of which are offset to form the shoulders ff, and the shaft b is provided with a series of collars 9, one for each slot, each collarhaving shoulders g g, formed to abut against the shoulders ff and limit the independent swinging movement of the support d, with which it is engaged. Each collar 9 is engaged with the shaft by means of a tongue or projection g Figs. 5 and 8, entering a longitudinal slot h in the shaft, the said tongue being preferably integral with the sleeve and formed by pressing inwardly a portion of the metal of the upward swinging of the support d separating the shoulders f thereon from the shoulders shaft has a handle j, by which it may be,

g on the corresponding sleeve. The collarg is provided with eyes g g, which receive a clamping-screw 9 As above stated, the shaft 17 is adapted to be turned in its bearings to simultaneously displace all the supports 61 and their threadguides. This movement of the shaft may be in the direction required to raise the supports d, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 3, or it may be in the direction required to depress the said supports, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 13. When the shaft is arranged to swing thesupports upwardly, itis held in its normal position by the bearing of a stop-arm iagainst the roller-beam a, as shown in Figs; 1 and 4, said arm having an adjustable end consisting of a screw 2", confined by a nut 71 the screw abutting against the roller-beam and being adjusted to hold the shaft 1) with the supports (1 projecting horizontally. The

turned in. the direction indicated by the arrow, Fig. 4, to raise the thread-guides and their supports, this motion causing the shoulders g. to act on the shoulders f. in such manner as to raise the supports d, the arm i leaving the beam a. When the shaft is turned in the opposite direction, the supports (1 are swung downwardly until the screw 2" on the arm 1' strikes the roller-beam. I

When the supports and thread-guides are to be displaced by a downward swinging movement, I employ a movable abutment for the stop-arm on the shaft instead of using the fixed roller-beam for said abutment, the said movable abutment being displaced when it is desired to displace the thread-guides. In Figs. 9, 10, 11, and 12 I show an arrangement for the downward displacement of the threadguides, in which is a rod or shaftjournaled in suitable bearings m, affixed to the rollerbeam, said rod being located between the roller-beam and the stop-arms 'i on the shaft b. To the shaft 70 are affixed weighted arms n, whichnormally gravitate toward and abut against the roller-beamand have stop proijections or abutments n, which stand in po sition to arrest the screws 2; on the stop-arms t of the shaft 1) when the weighted arms nare in their normal position, said abutments preventing the shaft 1) from turning in the di-' rection required to swing the thread-guides downwardly. When it is desired to displace the threadguides, the shaft b is first turned slightly to separate its arms 71 from the abutments at, and then the shaft 70 is turned in the direction indicated by the arrow in Fig. 12, thus depressing the abutments at below the stop-arms 'L' and permitting the threadguides and their holders to swing downwardly to the position shown by dotted lines in Fig. 13. The described movement of the shaft 70 is caused by a handle 19, mounted to swing independently on the shaft 1), and having a slotted projection 19', the slot of which receives a stud g on an arm q, affixed to the shaft 1c. \Vhen the handle 19 is swung upwardly, the arm q is swung outwardly from the roller-beam and the abutments n are swung downwardly. The thread-guides and their supports may be again made operative by swinging them upwardly far enough to permit the abutments n to be restored to their operative position and then allowing the stop-arms t" to swing down to the said abutments.

The supports d are relatively wide fiat plates of sheet or plate metal of such thickness that the supports may be formed by dies. The plates 7, forming the lower portions of the sockets that embrace the shaft 1), are composed of the same material and may also be formed by dies. The same is true of the sleeves g, the described form and construction of these several parts being such that they may be made almost wholly by dies, thus reducing the cost of manufacture to the minimum. The fiat form of the supports d enables thein to form a practically continuous shelf without wide openings between the supports, so that there is little or no liability of waste not takenup by scavenger-rolls accumulating and dropping into contact with and breaking adjacent threads.

3 represents a shelf orfilling-piece attached to the bearing a and formed to fill the space between the roller-beam a and the shaft 1), thus preventing broken threads from falling into said space. The shelf 8 is secured by means 3 to the brackets 16, in which are the bearings for the rod or shaft 6, and is provided with a downwardly-projecting flange 8 which bears on the roller-beam and stiffens the shelf, so that the shelf and flange may be made from sheet metal.

Each thread guide may be provided with an extension comprising an arm 17, bent downwardly from one side portion of the loop 12, and a loop 18, bent from the lower portion of the arm 17 and extendingin ahorizontal plane when the thread-guide is in its operative position. The loop 18 is below the eye 10 and in close proximity to the upper end of the bobbin t and constitutes a thread-contractor, which prevents undue ballooning of the thread. This is not new, broadly, it being shown, for example, in Letters Patent No.

tongue or projection 9 adapted to be formed 238,595, where the thread-guide and the contractor are shown as made in separate parts, the contractor being formed to present an opening for the entrance of the yarn into the contractor by a lateral movem ent, which opening is between two parts of the contractor, one overlapping the other, so thatin case the thread-guide and contractor are displaced from their operative position while the thread is in the contractor the thread remains in the contractor. I have improved the contractor by forming it so that its movement away from its operative positionwill cause it to leave the thread, so that the thread is not displaced by the contractor. contractor with a relatively wide opening 19, which in the form shown in Fig. 1 is at the back portion of the contractor, the opening being arranged in eachcase so that when the contractor is swung from its operative position (the swinging movement being upward in one case and downward in the other) the opening 19 permits the contractor to pass away from the thread, which is therefore not displaced by the contractor. This is a marked advantage, because the extent of displacement of the contractor is considerably greater than that of the thread-guide, and in the old form of contractor more inconvenience results from the displacement of the thread by the contractor than by the guide.

It will be seen that the stop-collar g and its by dies, enables the shaft 1) to be provided with stops (to retain thethread-guide supports in their operative positions) which are more accurate and less expensive than studs inserted in holes drilled in the shaft, the eX- p'ense of drilling holes in the shaft (an operationby which it is difficult to secure accuracy and uniformity) being avoided. The cost of forming the slot h in the shaft to receive the tongues g is very slight, and there is no difficulty in securing accuracy and uniformity in the location and size of said slot.

I claim- 1. A thread-guide, a support therefor comprising a metal plate having provisions for engaging the thread-guide, and also having a two-part socket, and an operating-shaft embraced by said sockct, the latter having a slot which is widened at one end to form shoulders adapted to engage a stop memberon'the shaft.

2. A thread-guide, and a support therefor comprising a metal plate having ears projecting downwardly from its under side to-engage a loop on the thread-guide, said loop bearing on the under side of the plate, and a bolt proengaging the thread-guide, and also having a shaft-embracing socket containing a slot which is widened at one end to form a shoulder, an operating-shaft embraced by said To this end I provide the socket, a compressible stop-collar having a compressed and clamped upon the operatingshaft.

4. A thread-guide support having a socket,

a stop-collar having a shoulder to engage a complemental shoulder on the said socket, and a tongue or projection to engage a slot in an operating-shaft.

5. A thread-guide support having a compressible socket, and a stop-collar [having a shoulder to engage a complemental shoulder on the said socket, a tongue or projection to engage a slot in an operating-shaft, ears projecting from the socket,-and a clamping device engaged with said ears.

6.. In a spinning-machine, the combination of a rod or shaft having a longitudinal groove, a series of stop-collars embracing said shaft and having projections entering the groove, and a series of thread-guide supports having sockets which embrace and are slotted to receive the stop-collars.

7. In a spinning-machine, the combination of a rotary rod or shaft, a series of threadguide supports mounted thereon, a stop-arm rigidly secured to the shaft and projecting downwardly therefrom, and an abutment arranged to oppose said stop-arm, said abutment being located below the shaft.

8. In a spinning-machine, the combination of a rotary rod or shaft, a series of threadguide supports mounted thereon, a stop-arm adjustable terminal, and an abutment located below the shaft and arranged'to oppose said terminal, the said arm and terminal permitting the simultaneous adjustment of all the thread-guides.

9. In a spinning-machine, the combination of a rotary rod or shaft, a series of threadguide supports mounted thereon, a stop-arm rigidly secured to the shaft and projecting downwardly therefrom, and amovable abutj" ment which normally opposes the stop-arm and is adapted to be removed from the path of the latter, said movable abutment being located below the shaft and between the arni and the roller-beam,

10. In a spinning-machine,tl1e combination of a rotary rod or shaft, a series of threadguide supports mounted thereon, a stop-arm rigidly secured to the shaft and projecting downwardly therefrom, a movable abutment which normally stands in the path of the stopbe turned to move the abutment from its normal position.

12. Inaspinning-machine,the combination of a roller-beam, a rotary rod or shaft journaled in bearings formed in brackets affixed to the roller-beam, a series of thread-guide supports and thread-guides carried by'said' rod, and a filling-piece or shelf interposed be tween the shaft and the roller-beam, and havingadownwardly-projectingstiffening-flange bearing against the roller-beam, said fillingpiece being secured to the said brackets.

13. An oscillatory thread-guide support and a thread-contractor thereon having an opening formed to permit the contractor to leave 

